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The Essex Insurance Company
Records include 24 volumes of marine policies, two volumes of fire policies, and one
folder of marine and fire policies from 1835 to 1855.

Collection Number:

MSS 135

Series List

Scope and Content Note

The Essex Insurance Company Records include 24 volumes of marine policies, two
volumes of fire policies, and one folder of marine and fire policies from 1835 to
1855.

Historical Sketch

The Essex Insurance Company, founded by 1835, was situated at 170 Essex Street in
Salem, Massachusetts. According to the 1837 Salem Directory, the Essex Insurance
Company was directed by Charles Treadwell and its presidents included William H.
Foster, John W. Fenno, James Harris, Emery Johnson, Thomas P. Pingree, and John
Preston. Daniel L. Proctor is listed as secretary. The capital is listed at
$100,000. Directors, presidents, and secretaries can be traced through early Salem,
Massachusetts, directories until 1855, after which the company disappears from the
directories, indicating its dissolution.

Index Terms

This collection is indexed under the following headings in Philcat. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons,
or places should search the catalog using these headings.

Essex Insurance Co. (Salem, Mass.)

Fire insurance

Marine insurance

Shipwrecks

Restrictions

Restrictions on Access

This collection is open for research use.

Administrative Information

Copyright

Requests for permission to publish material from the collection must be submitted in
writing to the Manuscript Librarian in the Phillips Library at the Peabody Essex
Museum.